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All Saints

All Saints

Holbrook

Suffolk

C14 chancel and nave with C15 repairs to upper parts, C15 south aisle, C14 south tower incorporating south porch, circa 1863 north aisle with porch at western re-entrant angle.

Architectural Features

Flint rubble, septaria, ashlar, C15 and later red brick stone dressings.

South wall of rubble and red brick, parapet continues through nave, band with gargoyles.

Gargoyles below parapet.

Below this window is an angled porch with pointed roof of stone tiles, moulded two-centre arched doorway, label with foliate stops.

Tierceron vault, moulded ribs, foliate bosses to central octagon, angel heads to wall apices, wall shafts with moulded bases, moulded and crenellated capitals.

Brass chandelier converted to ten electric lights.

Nave: C19 stone octagonal pulpit, moulded and crenellated rim, carved roundels to each panel, trefoiled panels to base, moulded soffit, stem of attached shafts with splayed bases.

Lectern, stone, rectangular with similar decoration as pulpit.

C19/C20 pews, carved roundels to end panels.

Octagonal font, carved roundels to each face, moulded capital and base to stem, octagonal base with step to west.

Hatchment to north wall.

Wall brass, Hannah Rodgers, 1893.

Floor slab, partially obscured by a pew, 'Clench of Holbrook and Elizabeth his wife, April 1659', coat of arms over south east corner.

Monument Judge John Clench 1607 and his wife, two table tombs, his against the wall and above hers, each effigy lying on its side facing forward, heads resting on left hand, both with ruffs and headress, he wearing a cloak over a belted gown, she in a belted gown with long sleeves terminating in ruffs, set back to either side of her effigy are three sons and two daughters with four sons and six daughters above and set further back.

C17 embellishment surrounds the inscription panel above with flanking and central coat of arms.

Inscription panel to lower tomb relates, Margerie Clench, late wife of Thomas Clench' 2 July 1597.

There is said to be a late C15 brass, 31 ins long of a knight in armour wall plaque relating that Gifford Read 1846 - 1929 and Augusta Walker his wife, left their property at Holbrook House to the Admiralty in Trust for the Navy in memory of its services in the Great War 1914-1918.

Wall memorial to John Reade of Holbrook House, 7.7.1843.